Religious education in Lithuania

Circumstances of Development of Institutional Education in Lithuania. Religious education and moral education in text books. Citizenship and morality dimensions: frequency of occurrence. Dimensions of citizenship and morality: intensity of expression. Conclusion. The XIV century is held to be the beginning of the development of institutional education in Lithuania. A surviving 1397 document attests to the existence of a school, functioning at the Vilnius Cathedral. Education was under the cultural domain of the Church during the Middle Ages in Lithuania, as well as throughout all of Europe. The official Act of Christianity, introduced by Jogaila and Vytautas, was dated in 1387. Lithuania accepted Christianity later than other European countries. Thus, it may also be concluded that the system of institutional education also developed later, and was chiefly aimed at the training of the clergy.